My mother and my grandmother would make an apple tart in different styles, and I had one per day. Every day I would eat one full apple tart.

I'm very bad, but I like to dance.

I love garlic, and I use it often.

America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family.

Just walking in the kitchen (and we have three kitchens at Le Bernardin), I exercise quite a lot. I also walk in Central Park for 50 minutes from my house to Le Bernardin every day, rain, shine, snow.

When I started to work in Paris in fine dining, the passion really kicked in, and I knew that I would not, for the rest of my life, do anything else.